Everyday Exchanges: Marketwork and Capitalist Common Sense

by Evan Watkins

Book Overview

This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving everyone; whereas economics, by contrast, is alien, a force field determined by international financial interests and legitimized by the arid discourses of professional economists. The author argues that, in fact, for most people, most of the time, economic issues are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730865
• ISBN13: 9780804730860
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"